Exam question 4 · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…
What sum did the butchers demand for the dog?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, butchers · What happens: do, demand
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 butchers | det |
| 5 | butchers | butcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 demand | nsubj |
| 6 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 demand | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what sum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | present | the butchers | for the dog | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Three hundred ducats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ducats | nummod |
| 3 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
One hundred florins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 florins | nummod |
| 3 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two hundred florins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 florins | nummod |
| 3 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One hundred florins and a silver cup from the shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 florins | nummod |
| 3 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cup | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cup | compound |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 florins | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 shop | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shop | det |
| 10 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cup | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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